CPD session put together for our Literacy for Learning reps to delived on CPD training Day - a big push to improve DEAR and encourage reading across the Academy.

1. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU

2. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU DEAR – Drop Everything And Read Or DEAER – Drop Everything And Enjoy Reading NOT SDASU – Sit Down And Shut Up Or SUAPTR –Shut Up And Pretend To Read

3. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU Every Teacher is a Teacher of Reading Aim: To provide a learning environment in which literacy actively and openly contributes, across the curriculum, to enjoyment, learning and progress of all student’s regardless of their ability or first language. Aim: To develop each students reading for pleasure Aim: To practise reading Aim: To share the fun in reading Aim: To be inspired by reading Aim: To increase reading stamina Aim: To promote and increase the enjoyment and frequency of reading among College students

4. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU Step One: Use DEAR Homepage at least once each cycle. (Why not work in pairs/clusters to use the DEAR support pages and plan collectively) Click Picture to watch short clip on where to find the DEAR Homepage and a quick glimpse at what you can find there!

5. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU Step Two: Whole College have DEAR on same day Whole College Drops Everything And Reads..... Including Admin; Technicians.... And College Leaders! Get a whole ‘atmosphere’ going, allow for habit forming. This will also allow for: splitting groups by KS or Gender. Share a girlie book with just the girls, or a boyish book with just the lads. Or something nice and easy with KS3 and something ‘dangerous’ with KS4

6. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU Step Three: Read Out Loud As a Tutor you can easily model reading. Have the DEAR Homepage extract on a screen so tutees can follow along and discover “Oh, that’s how you say that word” OR/AND Read a whole book over a term. –Your choice... Their choice? OR/AND Allow buddy reading, borrow a set of Books from the MRC for group reading. Click to watch the video

7. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU Step Four: Drop Everything And Read Everyday In addition to the 30 minute DEAR session allow for a quick burst of reading everyday. (5-10 minutes) A chapter of the ongoing story. Todays’ newspapers online. Allow & reward reading for pleasure. Click to watch the video

8. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU Step Five: Create a College Book Wall Find a Display area for creating a Book Wall which can include: Author profiles; Book reviews; Get caught Reading photos; Polls; Quotes; Themed by Genre; Front Cover Designs; Display run by different tutor group each month/term.

9. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU Step Six: Accept your invitation to visit the MRC Okay, so you won’t all be able to spend time with visiting Authors like the top four borrowing Tutor groups did in June. But your tutor group will be invited to spend time browsing in the MRC. Many students complain that they don’t get enough time to just explore the books in the MRC. Taking time to choose a book right for them is half the battle. MRC Staff are on hand to offer suggestions for those tricky students! Author GP Taylor meets tutor group C ABa

10. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU Step Seven: Get Creative Use Photostory to create a moving book review, or a Book Trailer Click Screen to watch a Photostoryexample

11. 7 Steps to Success: DEAR not SDASU Step One: Use DEAR Homepage at least once each cycle Step Two:Whole College have DEAR on same day Step Three: Read Out Loud Step Four: Drop Everything And Read Everyday Step Five: Create a College Book Wall Step Six: Accept your invitation to visit the MRC Step Seven: Get Creative Click to print a copy